Initially one of the strongest players on Survivor: One World, Troy Robertson found himself in a spot of bother following the merge, when the all-female alliance began enacting their plan to eliminate the men in the game one by one. While a hidden immunity idol saved him from one Tribal Council, he was unsuccessful in his further attempts - though no-one can say he didn't give it his all! After failing to win the water slide immunity challenge and finding no luck in trying to sway his fellow players in his favor, the 50-year-old Miami, Florida native effectively sealed his fate and was sent home.

Troy spoke to reporters on Thursday about his Survivor experience and why he'd love to return in the future.

Where do you think you went wrong in the game?"I don't know if it's completely on me where it went wrong. There are circumstances. People didn't like Colton, but when he left, that hurt my game because he was a number and was on my side. He trusted me and we were planning to go far. When we merged, the other team was way too big and I knew it was going to be way too hard."

Why do you think some of the girls - like Christina, Alicia and Kat - refused to budge on changing up their alliance plans?"Well, because most of them are playing in fear, just to stay around. They're not playing with the mentality of wanting to win. I played to win. I wanted to win this game so I had to make moves to win. If you're playing to stay around, you're most likely going to go home. Kim's playing to win - she's making the moves. Those people don't want to make moves, and that's like society. People in a lot of ways are fearful of change and they don't want to change. Whatever makes them feel comfortable, they're going to stay. I've said this before - the single most difficult to do out there is to change someone's mind - about being hungry, strategizing, about challenges... it's almost impossible."

Why do people trust Kim so much?"She's very low-key and doesn't really talk a whole lot. Also, we're out there 24 hours a day and we talk about a lot of things, stories about your life, so she was very good at talking about what she does. She's very calming and the girls that she was playing with especially didn't know much about Survivor or strategizing so she's good at manipulating people. She's a very deceptive person and is a good liar - that's just how she is. Who you see out there is really who we are, deep down inside. When you're starving and hungry and have been there for 30 days scrounging around, what's really inside you comes out. If you have the ability to lie and deceive out there then you do in the real world."

Did you underestimate Kim?"No, not at all! Well, I underestimated her deceitfulness, that's for sure. She's 100% deceitful."

When you left, you whispered to Kat, 'Do it'. What was that all about?"I'd talked to her before and said, "Listen, if you want to be a leader and win this game, you need to wake up and smell the coffee and figure it out that you're not in the top. People are telling you what to do, you're not telling other people, so where does that leave you?' When I knew I was going and I saw she was the underdog, I wanted to give her a little bit of a boost. I was going but people knew I was a great player so I wanted to help her game and maybe inspire her to make a move."

Why didn't Kat switch when she seemed to be wavering follow Kim's reward challenge win?"Kat doesn't know the game 100%. I don't think she's seen a lot of Survivor and didn't really know how to make a big move on her own. She just trusted the very first person she probably met, which was Kim, so she stayed with that and that was it. She was basically playing the game in fear, like most of the people out there are playing - just to stay around rather than playing to win. There's a big difference!"

Did you have an idea on who you wanted to take to the final three?"Oh yeah, for sure! I wanted someone who I knew that the jury would think, there's no way they can give the money to this person, like Christina or Tarzan. If I would have went to the end, Tarzan wouldn't have won anything, and he wouldn't have been able to out-talk me at the final Tribal."

What's been the reaction of people you've met and know about how you played the game?"It's really been surprisingly super-positive! Even after last night, I got a lot of emails and Twitter followers - I'd say saying 90% positive things. Of course there's a few haters in there, but everyone said, 'Wow, you really played your game with your heart on your sleeve'. The people who know me - my family and friends and co-workers, knew that there was nothing fake about it. It was me 100% - what you see is what you get. That person who's out there, Troyzan, is me. A lot of people have said, 'Wow, you should be an all-star' or mentioning my name in the same sentence as Richard Hatch and Russell Hantz, so it's been pretty good."

What were your thoughts on the girls sticking with an all-female alliance even after switching tribes?"The thing is, people keep talking about this guy/girl alliance thing. That wasn't true at the merge - that was out when Colton got sick. We merged at 6/6 but it wasn't really, because Mike was always going to go with the girls. Jay, in hindsight, was going to go with the girls because he was in love with Kim and Chelsea. Tarzan, as well - once he found out what was going to happen, he was with Alicia all the way. Really, there was no girl/guy thing all along. If Colton had stayed, it would have been different."

Last week, Tarzan admonished you in front of the group when you won immunity, which you didn't take kindly to. What happened there?"I wasn't about to let Tarzan tell me in front of everyone to act noble - this game has nothing to do with being noble, you kooks. You're deceivers, you're liars - don't tell me about being noble. I'm a competitor and I'm going to play how I want to play. You can't tell me how I'm going to be. This is why I got irked, because people were wanting to tell me how I should be. That's why he shook my hand, because I called his bluff. You saw me kind of laugh, like, are you joking? It was also an opportunity for me to stick up for myself in front of everybody. I'm not going to back down to anybody. Tarzan would say stuff to people and they'd back down, but not me."

Who was the most frustrating person to play the game with?"Towards the end, it was Tarzan just because he's not going to budge. He's very stubborn - he knew there was a family visit coming so it's all he was focusing on. He wasn't focusing on me, which was very frustrating. He thought that by sticking with the women, he would better his chances of getting the visit. Christina, I just couldn't get through to her. I felt like I was talking to a brick wall. I would try and try - I knew she was intelligent, but she wasn't grasping what I was saying. She was irrational and because of that, you didn't know what her next move would be. "

Would you return to Survivor?"I would leave tomorrow. I would be on it in a second. I have unfinished business! I had one goal: to win. You can say you're going out there to play for nothing, for peanuts, and I'm going. I just want the title of Sole Survivor. I really thought I would win every immunity, that I would go down in history as one of the greatest players. I would have done that if I had won."